Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9789401781268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 292 str.

Eric Wolanski

Opis

This book examines the environmental status of 20 iconic Australian estuaries and bays and suggests what they will look like in 2050 and beyond based on current socio-economic decisions and changes that are needed to ensure sustainability.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This nicely illustrated book is a wonderful mix of case studies, geographical descriptions, history, scientifically-based predictions, socio-economic anecdotes, and fundamental physical, biological, chemical and environmental science ... . It is written at a level where most readers, specialist scientists or not, will have no difficulty following the text and appreciating the arguments. As a summary of the historical, the current, and the anticipated status of Australian estuaries, on a level that can be appreciated by almost everybody, it is excellent." (Reg Uncles, ECSA Bulletin, Issue 62, 2014)

Spis treści

1. Estuaries of Australia in 2050 and beyond - A synthesis
Eric Wolanski and Jean-Paul Ducrotoy 

PART I - Estuaries that bore the full pressure of the historical developments

2. Sydney Estuary, Australia: Geology, anthropogenic development and hydrodynamic processes/attributes
Serena B. Lee, and Gavin F. Birch 

 3. The Murray/Coorong Estuary. Meeting of the Waters?
Jochen Kämpf, and Diane Bell

4. Port Phillip Bay
Joe Sampson, Alan Easton and Manmohan Singh

5. The Tamar Estuary, Tasmania
Joanna C. Ellison and Matthew R. Sheehan 

PART II Estuaries being degraded

6. Gold Coast Broadwater: Southern Moreton Bay, Southeast Queensland (Australia)
Ryan J.K. Dunn, Nathan J. Waltham, Nathan P. Benfer, Brian A. King, Charles J. Lemckert, and Sasha Zigic

7. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a macro-tidal estuary: Darwin Harbour, Australia
F. P. Andutta, X. H. Wang, Li Li, and D. Williams

8. The Ord River estuary: a regulated wet-dry tropical river system
Barbara J. Robson, Peter C. Gehrke, Michele Burford, Ian T. Webster, Andy T. Revill and Duncan W. Palmer

9. South Australia’s Precious Inverse Estuaries: On the road to ruin
Jochen Kämpf

10. Turbulent Mixing and Sediment Processes in Peri-Urban Estuariesin South-East Queensland (Australia)
Hubert Chanson, Badin Gibbes, and Richard J. Brown

11. Hervey Bay and Its Estuaries
Joachim Ribbe

12. Moreton Bay and its estuaries: A sub-tropical system under pressure from rapid population growth
Badin Gibbes , Alistair Grinham¹, David Neil, AndrewOlds, Paul Maxwell, Rod Connolly, Tony Weber, Nicola Udy and James Udy

13. Water resource development and high value coastal wetlands on the lower Burdekin floodplain, Australia.
Aaron M. Davis, Stephen E. Lewis, Dominique S. O’Brien , Zoë T. Bainbridge, Christie Bentley, Jochen F. Mueller and Jon E. Brodie

14. The Hawkesbury Estuary from 1950 to 2050
Peter Collis 

PART III - Estuaries that are still relatively pristine

15. Deluge Inlet, a pristine small tropical estuary in north-eastern Australia
Marcus Sheaves, Kátya Abrantes, Ross Johnston

16. The Lower Mary River and flood plains
David Williams

O autorze

Dr. Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and ecohydrologist. Eric has 360 publications; he is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia (ret.), and l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography, a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the catholic University of Louvain, a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for excellence, and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) Lifetime Achievement Award. Eric is a member of the IGBP-IHDP Scientific Steering Committee of Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), and a member of the Scientific Planning Committee of Japan’s Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS). He is a chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Wetlands Ecology and Management, and the Treatise of Estuarine and Coastal Science.

Blurb

The book addresses the questions: Is Australia’s rapidly growing human population and economy environmentally sustainable for its estuaries and coasts? What is needed to enable sustainable development?

To answer these questions, this book reports detailed studies of 20 iconic Australian estuaries and bays by leading Australian estuarine scientists.

That knowledge is synthesised in time and space across Australia to suggest what Australian estuaries will look like in 2050 and beyond based on socio-economic decisions that are made now, and changes that are needed to ensure sustainability.

The book also has a Prologue by Mr Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, which bridges environmental science, population policy and sustainability.